Antique Miniature French Portrait Painting, Signed 19th Century

A large charming late 19th-century to early 20th-century, Chinese export reverse mirror painting, depicting a lady setting in her library. The ...

A charming late 19th-century to early 20th-century, Chinese export reverse glass painting, depicting a lady seating in the living room and an outdoor garden behind. The decoration in the room is presenting a very traditional Chinese character with paintings, lantain, bonsai, furniture, etc., playing with a bird. The painting comes with its original hardwood frame and the old pins...

Oil on board painting by Pieter Jacobsz Codde, 1599 to 1678, a Dutch artist. The artwork represents an interior genre scene, a company drinking and playing cards. The artist's monogr...

Large charming 19th-century Chinese export reverse glass painting, depicting the beauty of traditional Chinese customs and clothing decorations on the noblewomen. The paintings come with their original hardwood frame and the old pins...

Antique portrait with golden frame, depicting an ancestor of a noble family. hand-drawn and hand-made by an artist who signs himself: A. Laugien, dated 1851. Measures cm W 125 x H 170 x D 17. Precious gilded frame, entirely hand-sculpted. Interesting piece of furniture to embellish the walls of the most beautiful rooms...

A very nice antique hand-painted miniature portrait on porcelain of Princess Louise of England, circa 1900s. The piece is mostly likely a "Grand Tour" ...

Miniature Antique French Portrait Painting on Celluloid of Woman, Framed, C1880. Measures- 5.75"H x 4.75"W x 1"D; Sight: 2.25" x 3"...

Miniature portrait of a distinguished lady, signed Stieler. Bronze frame behind oval round glass, 19th century Signed Stieler, Joseph Karl Stieler (1781- Mainz - 1858 Munich) was a German painter. The size is 10 cm x 7.5 cm x 1 cm 1820-1830 From 1820 until 1855 he worked as royal court painter of the Bavarian kings. He is known for his Neoclassical portraits, especially for the Gallery of Beauties at Nymphenburg Palace in Munich. Born in the city of Mainz to a long-established family of engravers, punchcutters and die makers, Stieler received some artistic training from his father, August Friedrich Stieler (1736–1789). After the early death of his father, Joseph Karl autodidactically completed his apprenticeship and began his career as a painter of miniatures, which were increasingly sought after by bourgeois circles After Mainz had been occupied by French revolutionary troops in 1792, Stieler followed the expelled court of Prince-Archbishop Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal to Aschaffenburg. Here he met with the later Archbishop Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg, who became his most important patron and sponsor. From 1802 to 1805 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the master class of Heinrich Füger. Stieler's portrait style was most especially shaped during his work in the Parisian atelier of François Gérard, a student of Jacques-Louis David. In 1808, he established himself as an independent portraitist in the city of Frankfurt and in 1810 travelled through Italy. From 1812 he worked at the court of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria. In 1816, he again travelled to Vienna to paint the portrait of Emperor Francis I of Austria. Between February and April 1820, he worked on his portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven, which is probably the most well-known representation of the composer today. In 1847 he also painted the portrait of Lola Montez...